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Pastimes : Rage Against the Machine
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To: Thomas M. who wrote (714)1/30/2003 6:27:29 PM
From: Thomas M.Read Replies (1) of 1296
 
Turning the Tide (p192-3)

<<< ... until mid-1944, almost 95% of all Nazi ground forces were engaged on the Eastern Front, where Germany suffered 10.0 million of its 13.6 million casualties; and that 50 Soviet citizens died for every one American.

In short, fear of a Soviet attack on Western Europe was not a dominant concern. At some level, Western European planners must recognize this. Western Europe has an economy far larger than that of the Soviet bloc, a
much higher technical and educational level, a population of comparable size and much greater internal cohesion. If they really took the Soviet threat seriously, they could build a military system that would overwhelm that of the USSR. The fact that they do not is not without significance. >>>
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